London Falling
by:
Paul Cornell (author)
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780765368102 (0765368102)
Publish date: February 25th 2014
Publisher: Tor Fantasy
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Series: Shadow police (#1)
Series: Shadow Police #1 I was tempted to drop this book at first, because I wasn’t enthralled with the hard-boiled gritty undercover cop operation it started it off with, but it moved past it after a couple chapters and became more interesting. Quill and his crew are thrown into a deep end with s...
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Detective Inspector James Quill is about to complete the drugs bust of his career when his prize suspect Rob Toshack is murdered in custody. But nothing about Toshack’s murder is normal. Now, the team must find a suspect who can bend space and time and alter memory itself, a suspect who will murder ...
What is it about London? It's gone from tribal village to Roman outpost to symbol of Britain. There are thousands of stories about the city and its people. The very stones bleed history, it seems, and you can't dig foundations for a new building without accidentally hitting a coin cache or a tomb or...
It took me forever to get into this book. If it had not been a book I committed to review, I would have DNF'd it. Finally, I reached a breakthrough and I was able to finish it. It turned out to be good, but I feel the writing needed more work to be more accessible. I love British just about anything...
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